University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Women's Basketball
Love, Paige
Paige Love
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- slove@unca.edu
- Phone:
- 282-2413
Paige Love recently completed her second season as an assistant coach on Head Coach Honey Brown's coaching staff in 2021-22. Love, who played for the Bulldogs from 2012-16, spent the previous three seasons as an assistant coach at Texas State prior to returning to her alma mater.
Highlighting her first season back in Asheville, Love was named to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Thirty-Under-30 list. This list is comprised of the top 30 up-and-coming women's basketball coaches age 30 and under at all levels of women's college basketball.
"I am beyond thrilled to have Paige join our Bulldog staff,” said Brown. “Paige made a huge impact for this program as a player and I know she will do the same now as an assistant coach. She has tremendous work ethic and such positive energy that our players, staff and fans will love! I have watched Paige stretch herself in so many ways to learn and improve as a coach. I am excited to have her back in Asheville and in Kimmel Arena.”
During her career as a player, Love helped the Bulldogs win the 2016 Big South regular season and tournament championships. It marked the program’s second appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Off the court, Love was a winner of the William and Ida Friday Award for Service to Community, a nominee for the WBCA All-State Good Works Team, the John Wooden Citizen Cup and the NCAA Woman of the Year award. At the conclusion of her senior year, Love was named UNC Asheville’s Female “Big Dog of the Year” and earned athletic department’s Bulldog Service and Leadership Award.
“Wow! This is a dream homecoming,” said Love “It is extremely special that I can come back and work for Coach Brown and wear the Asheville blue again. I have no doubt that under her servant leadership, tireless work ethic, and unconditional care for the student-athletes that continued greatness is in the future of this program. I am honored and thankful to be back at UNC Asheville to serve a university, a department, and a program that gave so much to me as a student-athlete. I am excited and ready to continue to grow the tradition and culture that has been cultivated within the women’s basketball program under the leadership of Coach Honey Brown. Go Bulldogs!”
As a member of the Texas State coaching staff, Love coached four All-Sun Belt players during her tenure. She also helped coach the Bobcats to a program Division I era record 23 victories in 2017-18 and an appearance in the Women's National Invitation Tournament. Following that campaign, she was a roundtable speaker at the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Convention at the Final Four in Columbus, Ohio. She presented "Behind the Scenes: The Graduate Assistant Life."
Love graduated from UNC Asheville in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in health and wellness promotion and received a master's degree in exercise science at Texas State in 2018.
Highlighting her first season back in Asheville, Love was named to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Thirty-Under-30 list. This list is comprised of the top 30 up-and-coming women's basketball coaches age 30 and under at all levels of women's college basketball.
"I am beyond thrilled to have Paige join our Bulldog staff,” said Brown. “Paige made a huge impact for this program as a player and I know she will do the same now as an assistant coach. She has tremendous work ethic and such positive energy that our players, staff and fans will love! I have watched Paige stretch herself in so many ways to learn and improve as a coach. I am excited to have her back in Asheville and in Kimmel Arena.”
During her career as a player, Love helped the Bulldogs win the 2016 Big South regular season and tournament championships. It marked the program’s second appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Off the court, Love was a winner of the William and Ida Friday Award for Service to Community, a nominee for the WBCA All-State Good Works Team, the John Wooden Citizen Cup and the NCAA Woman of the Year award. At the conclusion of her senior year, Love was named UNC Asheville’s Female “Big Dog of the Year” and earned athletic department’s Bulldog Service and Leadership Award.
“Wow! This is a dream homecoming,” said Love “It is extremely special that I can come back and work for Coach Brown and wear the Asheville blue again. I have no doubt that under her servant leadership, tireless work ethic, and unconditional care for the student-athletes that continued greatness is in the future of this program. I am honored and thankful to be back at UNC Asheville to serve a university, a department, and a program that gave so much to me as a student-athlete. I am excited and ready to continue to grow the tradition and culture that has been cultivated within the women’s basketball program under the leadership of Coach Honey Brown. Go Bulldogs!”
As a member of the Texas State coaching staff, Love coached four All-Sun Belt players during her tenure. She also helped coach the Bobcats to a program Division I era record 23 victories in 2017-18 and an appearance in the Women's National Invitation Tournament. Following that campaign, she was a roundtable speaker at the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Convention at the Final Four in Columbus, Ohio. She presented "Behind the Scenes: The Graduate Assistant Life."
Love graduated from UNC Asheville in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in health and wellness promotion and received a master's degree in exercise science at Texas State in 2018.
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